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Tuck Everlasting (2002)
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Reviews Counted:113
Fresh:69
Rotten:44
Average Rating:6.3/10
Consensus: Though slow-moving, Tuck Everlasting raises big issues and explores them with sensitivity.
Theatrical Release:Oct 11, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $19,032,871
Synopsis: Fifteen-year-old Winnie Foster (Alexis Bledel) is the beautiful, privileged daughter of the richest man in town. A disagreement with her domineering parents (Amy Irving, Victor Garber) sends Winnie... Fifteen-year-old Winnie Foster (Alexis Bledel) is the beautiful, privileged daughter of the richest man in town. A disagreement with her domineering parents (Amy Irving, Victor Garber) sends Winnie outside the fence that surrounds her pristine house and protects her from the outside world, and into the nearby forbidden woods. Her journey becomes a far greater adventure than she ever anticipated when she meets the Tucks, a family of immortals that live deep in the woods. Parents Angus (William Hurt), Mae (Sissy Spacek), and their sons Miles (Scott Bairstow) and Jesse (Jonathan Jackson), stopped aging more than a century ago after drinking from an enchanted spring, a veritable fountain of youth. With the Tucks, Winnie discovers the freedom lacking in her own small world, and a romance blossoms between the mortal teenager and the immortal Jesse. With the local police searching for the missing Winnie and a mysterious stranger (Ben Kingsley) searching for the Tucks, Winnie must choose between immortality and a life with her new friends, or the life--and inevitable death--of a normal human. TUCK EVERLASTING is directed by Jay Russell (MY DOG SKIP, END OF THE LINE), adapted from the classic novel by Natalie Babbitt, and narrated by Elisabeth Shue. [More]
Starring: Jonathan Jackson, Alexis Bledel, Amy Irving, William Hurt
Starring: Jonathan Jackson, Alexis Bledel, Amy Irving, William Hurt, Ben Kingsley, Sissy Spacek, Scott Bairstow, Victor Garber
Director: Jay Russell
Director: Jay Russell
Screenwriter: Jeffrey Leiber
Producer: James V. Hart, Marc Abraham, Jane Startz, Deborah Forte
Composer: William Ross
Studio: Buena Vista Pictures
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Feb 25, 2003
Reviews for Tuck Everlasting
The entire production bears a certain medicinal scent; it may be good for you, but it's not exactly tasty.
There is no life in the story, and what could be a thoughtful rumination on mortality offers only pat Disneyfied lessons.
Lambent, wholesome youth film, nothing short of magical, wherein a cosseted, cloistered lass escapes from her perennial confines of parental stuffiness .
A great-looking film with beautiful scenery and some fine actors, but it lacks a good third act.
With much to be enchanted by while you're watching and some worthwhile questions to think about afterwards, Tuck Everlasting is rewarding old-fashioned entertainment.
Attractively filmed and pleasantly conceived, it ventures too far into sentimentality, and not far enough into its fascinating life versus immortality subject matter.
At one point, Winnie says to Jesse that she 'wishes this moment could last forever.' I thought the movie was going to last forever.
Despite its sad feel, and the fact that it drags almost to a standstill in the middle, it's quite beautiful visually and features fine performances by Bledel, Jackson, and the others.
A movie that the less charitable might describe as a castrated cross between Highlander and Lolita.
Harks back to a time when movies had more to do with imagination than market research.
In the end, Tuck Everlasting falls victim to that everlasting conundrum experienced by every human who ever lived: too much to do, too little time to do it in.
That rare movie that works on any number of levels -- as a film of magic and whimsy for children, a heartfelt romance for teenagers and a compelling argument about death, both pro and con, for adults.
Sure to make teenage girls giddy, their mom’s cry and their father’s smile.
[The kind of] story that stays with kids, becomes more meaningful to them as grownups.
"Tuck Everlasting" is a rare thing: not only a family film but a film about a young woman.
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